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Applied Materials is the world''s largest supplier of equipment, services, and software for the semiconductor and display industries, enabling the production of chips and advanced displays. Industry: Semiconductor Equipment
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JOB TITLE: AIx Product Manager
The Product Manager, Level V is an emerging product leader role designed for a technically deep engineer with a PhD transitioning into product management. You will join the team to translate customer problems, technology capabilities, and field feedback into clear product requirements, roadmap inputs, and execution plans. Your daily work involves partnering with engineering, sales, and operations to convert technical opportunities into scalable outcomes, while building fact-based business cases connecting technical capability to revenue and strategic fit. You will utilize your expertise in engineering, science, materials science, physics, chemistry, or data science to solve complex problems. The role specifically addresses the technical challenges of semiconductor equipment, process technology, diagnostics, and advanced manufacturing environments, potentially utilizing Agentic AI solutions to develop concepts and dynamic product requirements documents.
Translate customer, field, and engineering inputs into clear product requirements and roadmap recommendations.
Build fact-based business cases connecting technical capabilities to customer outcomes, revenue, and strategic fit.
Analyze market and customer segmentation to identify investment, competition, and differentiation opportunities.
Synthesize Voice of Customer and competitive intelligence into actionable product recommendations.
Partner with Engineering and Program Management to ensure requirements are feasible, prioritized, and traceable.
Coordinate with Sales, Field, and Operations teams to support launch planning and adoption tracking.
Maintain documentation of product decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and success metrics.
Develop product management skills through a structured transition plan and senior mentorship.
What we're looking for
PhD in Engineering, Science, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.
Strong technical foundation with a demonstrated ability to solve complex engineering or technology problems.
Ability to translate technical concepts into customer value, product requirements, and cross-functional execution plans.
Effective written and verbal communication skills to engage engineering, field, business, and customer-facing stakeholders.
Demonstrated curiosity and commitment to developing product management, business, and commercial skills.
Experience working with semiconductor equipment, process technology, services, diagnostics, data platforms, automation, reliability, or advanced manufacturing environments (preferred).
Exposure to customer escalations, field support, roadmap discussions, technology transfer, or cross-functional product development (preferred).
Experience preparing technical presentations, competitive assessments, business cases, or requirements documents (preferred).
Generative AI
Machine Learning
Agentic AI
Data Science
Data Preprocessing
Predictive Modeling
Agile Methodologies
Design Thinking
Programming
Statistics
Rapid Prototyping
User Experience Design
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